Thankfulness and Sharing
We had so much fun with a sharing and thankfulness storytime. Sometimes having a group of 8-10 small three-year-olds is perfect.
"Bow Wow Wow, whose dog are thou? You are _______'s dog. Bow Wow Wow."
As people walked in we wrote down the names on our Dry Erase board, so at each child's name we passed the stuffed dog around the circle until it got back to me.
We skipped adults, so the small group of kids on the carpet worked out beautifully.
We had the best conversation with Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems, many preschoolers had strong feelings about Gerald sharing or not sharing.
I made a Stone Soup Flannel and handed out the vegetables to the children so that they could each add a vegetable to the soup pot.
We then shared the Parachute and the songs we came used were:
- If you're happy and you know it shake the chute...jump around
- Popcorn, popcorn sizzling in a pan. We started this with the children holding, but once they got underneath at the end, we had to sing it 2-3 times with them underneath.
- Parachute up, parachute down, parachute dancing all around the town. Shake it on your shoulders, shake it near your head, shake it at your knees and tuck right into bed. (We all got under the parachute at this last line. We had to sing this three times also. I think the preschoolers could have played with the parachute for the whole half hour!
- We did a round of ring around the rosy, but this was not nearly as popular, and so was harder to coordinate properly; our circle got smooshed and lopsided.
For our craft we made bookmarks to give as gifts with stickers, since we have a crazy drawer full of stickers, and they had fun.
